I therefore felt well assured that they would pay us another visit; and thus, to the misfortunes we were already suffering under, we had the new one added of being on hostile terms with the surrounding aborigines.

It moreover set in to rain hard and to blow fresher than ever just as we reached the boats.

I saw that all that could be done for Ruston had been attended to, and then, lying down, tried to forget my troubles in sleep.
CONTINUED DETENTION FROM FOUL WEATHER.

DESOLATE AND GLOOMY SITUATION.
From this period up to Friday the 15th of March the wind blew strong from the southward, accompanied with such a heavy sea and tremendous surf that to move was impossible.

Our position was very trying; inactivity, under the circumstances in which we were situated, was most difficult to support; for the mind, ever prone to prey upon itself, does so far more when you are compelled to sit down and patiently submit to misfortunes against which there are no means of resistance.